Drive-gearing for manure-spreaders.



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nmvn eaAame FOR Specification of Letters Patent.

MANURE-SPREADERS. Y

Patented June 19, 1906. 7

Application filed February 15, 1906- Serial No. 301,297-

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G Y E. CROWELL, .a citizen of the United States, residing at Mason City, in the county of Oerro Gordo and State. of l'owa,have invented certain 1 new and useful Improvements in Driveaccompanying drawings, in'whicha feeding-apron, a feed-0y Figure '1 is a perspective view of gearing embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan view.

Corresponding and" like parts are referred to in the followin description and indicated reference characters.-

The gearin embodying the invention is designed for t at class of s readers utilizing I der, and other In the drawings the numeral 1 desigin all the views o the drawings by the same parts.

. nates the side of the vehicle-body which forms apart of the ordinary spreader, the

numeral 2 indicating the rear axle of'the machine which is adapted to rotate and which has the sprocket 3 at one ofits ends.

Said sprocket '3 is preferably'keyed to the axle and is mounted thereon adjacent to the inner side of the rear ground-wheel. The

sprocketB is connected by a sprocket-chain 4 with an auxiliary\ sprocket 5 of a drivesprocket 6, which is mounted on a stub-shaft 7, attached'to the adjacent side sill of the body of the machine; The cylinder-shaft is indicated at 8 and carries a sprocket 9. at

one end, a sprocket-chain 10, passing about sprocket 9, and'afsecond'sprocket 11, which, is secured to one end of an apron-drive shaft 12. The sprocket 6 is in engagement with the sprocket-chain 10 an the lower portion thereof, a suitable idler-sprocket 13'being arranged to support the upper portion of the chain 10'as'it. moves about the sprockets 9 and 11. tachably secured to the sprocket 6, preferably by means of bolts 14, which pass through the rim spokes o the sprocket 6.;

y The driving mechanism, hereinbefore set forth, is simple, and it is contemplated that the'va'rious gear parts are exchangeable for tivemovernent of the elements of the feeding mechanism of the spreader. may be readily interchangeable, so as to ocsprocket 6 should it bedesiredto place the drive-gearing up on either side of the spreader.

mits motion through the auxiliary sprocket 5 to the sprocket 6. The sprocket 6, engagthese shafts.

Having isclaime asnew is-- I sprocket adjacent thereto, an auxiliary sprocket secured to the drive-sprocket at one aprondriving shaft, a sprocket applied to said apron-driving shaft, ,a cylinder-shaft, a sprocket secured to said cylinder-shaft, a s rocket-chain connecting t e -sprockets of shaft and having the lower lag t gagement with the drive-sprocket above mentioned, and an idler-sprocket supporting the upper lag of the s rocket-chain which connects the cylinder-s aft and the aprondriving shaft.

in presence of two witnesses.

GUY OROWELL;

Witnesses? I J. M. FINLEY,

B. r. BROWN.

cupy .a position upon either side of the ing the s rocket-chain 10, transmits motionto thecy inder-shaft 8 as well as to the'aprondriving shaft 12 and the sprockets applied to thus described the invention, what side thereof, a sprockevchain connecting the axle-sprocket with the auxiliary sprocket, an I z Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature The auxiliary sprocket 5 is de- '55 portion of the sprocket 5 and the others of greater or less size to vary the rela- The sprocket 5 The sprocket 3, driven by the axle 2, trans- In drive-gearing for 'manure-spreaderalthe combinatlon of an axle-sprocket, it drives,

t e cylinder-shaft and of the apron-(firming ereo 1n en- 

